Fringe Awards announced
[original at http://fringe.co.nz/news-and-media/its-been-one-helluva-fest-awards-now-named]
07
March, 2010
It's been one helluva fest! Awards
now named
The last New Zealand Fringe Festival ended with a question mark over its head about whether it would continue. It did, it rocked, and it will continue. Now Fringe 2010 has ended with a glorious bag with the naming of the best of all there is in 2010 and a new inductee for the Fringe Hall of Fame.
The New Zealand Fringe Festival held its Award and Closing Night Party on March 7 at the Paramount Theatre, blowing out the candles on its 20th Birthday festival celebrations.
Fourteen awards were announced to celebrate the best on show at Fringe 2010, and a new member of the Fringe Hall of Fame was honoured. In 2009, Bret McKenzie and Jermaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords were inducted.
The was hosted by Derek Flores and Vinyl Burns from talk show The Chit Chat Lounge and featured entertainment from this year's crop of Fringe participants, including The Crimson Club and Galaxia.
In the spirit of the best sporting adage, Fringe 2010 producer Zelda Edwards said this year's festival was a triumph in the face of adversity.
"This year was a battle that was fought hard and fought long," she said, " but we all are proud to have put on the best festival in the twenty years of Fringe.
"The Fringe is a festival that embraces and encourages the leading edge of arts and entertainment and despite the question marks that hung over this year’s event we're beyond happy with how things turned out.
"We feel that in 2010 that the city really embraced the Fringe, from our opening day with the glorious Running of the Fringe right through to the end. We have to say thanks with all our heart to our supporters, the Wellington City Council and everyone who has not only put on a Fringe show but seen one as well.
"The Fringe is an essential part of New Zealand's arts and culture, providing an opportunity for so many voices to be heard. Long may it continue," she said.
An announcement to the Fringe Festival's future will be made in due course.
Fringe 2010 Award winners and
nominations
(winners in bold)
Best in Dance (supported
by Fringe Arts Trust)
How to be a Domestic
Goddess
Footnote Perforum
Thricely?
Precisely! A Pocketful Of Pips.
Best in Music (supported
by Radio Active
89FM)
Aphelion
Galaxia
Home
Best
in Visual Art (supported by Resene)
The Princess
and the Many Quilts
Nag
Best in Outdoor
(supported by Phantom
Billstickers)
Navigators
Storytime for the
Hungry
Best in Comedy (supported by Tuatara
Brewery)
Ben Hur
Better Living
Best
in Theatre (supported by Fringe Arts Trust)
A Love
Tail
Who's Neat? You!
Ruby
Tuesday
Marketing Award (supported by
Creature)
Galaxia
Thricely?
Precisely! A Pocketful Of Pips
Comediettes
Best One Man
Band (Solo Show)
Wannabe
Sun
Drugs
The Immortals
Best Production Design
Pirates
Vs Ninjas
A Love Tail
Who's Neat?
You!
Aphelion
Nag
Most Original Concept (supported
by Springload)
The Princess and the Many
Quilts
Galaxia
23 Pieces
Where Did You Come
From? (Best Newcomer) (supported by Plum
Café)
Wannabe
A Love Tail
For
Real
The Princess And The Many Quilts
Stand Out
Performer (supported by Team Capital Holden)
Paul Waggot
(Sometimes I Don't Like Yellow)
Isla Adamson
(Ruby Tuesday)
Renee Lyons (Sunday Roast)
Best
of Fringe (supported by Fringe Arts Trust)
The
Princess and the Many Quilts
Pick of the Fringe
(supported by Downstage Theatre)
Both receive a return
season at Downstage
Theatre
Wannabe
Back/Words
Fringe Hall of Fame (supported by Fringe Arts Trust)
BATS Theatre!
ENDS